I Love College?

Recently an artist, Asher Roth, produced a new song called I Love College. This song discusses the "fun" of college life. It goes into detail about drugs, drinking, and of course, the opposite sex. Most teenagers I know are drinking in the lyrics, looking forward to their own college "experience", and some hope it'll be identical to Asher Roth's definition. Others fear the pressure to do things they're not ready for."(chorus)that party lastnight was awfully crazyi wish we taped iti danced my ass off and had this one girl completly nakeddrink my beer and smoke my weedbut my good friends is all i needpass out at 3 wake up at 10go out to eat then do it again" -lyricsmania.com

Just last week we had a drunk driving and hazing assembly. it was possibly one of the most depressing assemblies that I've ever attended. The saddest part of the assembly was the fact that it was focused on college frats, drinking, etc. And all of that had to do with one of our former students, Michael Starks, who died from hazing, and drinking at a fraternity initiation. "Alcohol-related consequences for college students between the ages of 18-24i: • Death: 1,700 die each year from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor vehicle crashes • Injury: 599,000 are unintentionally injured under the influence of alcohol • Assault: More than 696,000 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking • Sexual Abuse: More than 97,000 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape • Unsafe Sex: 400,000 have unprotected sex and more than 100,000 report having been too intoxicated to know if they consented to having sex • Academic Problems: About 25 percent of students report academic consequences of their drinking including missing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall • Health Problems/Suicide Attempts: More than 150,000 develop an alcohol-related health problem • Drunk Driving: 2.1 million drive under the influence of alcohol each year" -madd.org

Many new college students also decide to try drugs for the first time; mainly marijuana. Now I've had conversations, and debates about the affects of marijuana. I've always grown up thinking that it kills your lungs, brain cells, and that it's just plain bad for you. Some smarty-pants friends of mine have told me that they researched it, and in fact, none of that information is a threat. A lot of medical studies show that marijuana does in fact have a harmful affect on someone's body. Some long effects have to do with the heart, brain, and lungs. So wherever those kids got their information, they should probably look again because it's wrong."

The fact of the matter is that college isn't all about the parties, the booze, the drugs, and the sex. Sure that's all fun, until someone dies! Basically, just be smart and in the words of my mother, "make good choices!"

This is very insightful to the world around us. But I think that if people go out to drink they should know what that stuff like this would happen. Its not a sure thing to happen but it has a very high chance of happening. But people need to use their better judgment.

o yea dont use the argument that 18 is to low of a age to drink. cause at 18 u can sign up to go to war. u can kill some one but u cant drink. and when u come back from killing and u lost a leg on the battle field and u go to a bar to get a drink but ur only 19 u cant and how fair is that

studies show that the reason the college students drink is cause its against the law. like in a frat house they tell u to drink cause if u get caught u get in trouble. so if u lower the drinking age it would be better.

my solution to the problem of under age drinking is that at the age of 17 if u want to drink at 18 u can take a class and if u pass the class then u can take a test and if u pass the test u can get a "drinking licience". and there should be rules. and the punishment for these rules is that your licence take away. and your pic will be sent to all the local liquor stores.

you see i dont know why people would take this song seriously. hence its JUST A SONG. so what if he talkes about drinking and all that stuff. It doesnt necessarily mean that everyone whos going to college will drink and drive like you mentioned. I think its ridiculous if people actually take this song seriously.